Salman Rushdie Net Worth

Salman Rushdie Net Worth is$15 Million

Salman Rushdie Bio/Wiki 2018

Salman Rushdie finished his education from John Connon School and Rugby school in Mumbai and did his graduation in the well-known King’s college, University of Cambridge, where he majored in history. He began his career as a copywriter working for an advertising firm specifically Ogilvy and Mather and afterwards at Ayer Barker before he became a fulltime writer. Salman Rushdie is among the most contentious yet acclaimed novelists of the world best known for his glittering novels which are a combination of startling imagination, exuberance and dream he’s filled with intellectual resources and brilliance.

Salman Rushdie Net Worth $15 Million

Salman Rushdie with a net worth of $ 20 million is among the leading novelists of the modern world but unlike others star writers he made his cash just in the novels which he wrote not even a penny of his worth comes from sanctions deals. Salman Rushdie’s Midnights Children is a masterpiece along with an epochal work of fiction and also this novel is what made him one of the largest literary voices of our current generation. The magic in the novel refused to expire as well as after 25 years of its launch the novel went to win Best of the Bookers and Booker of Bookers in the year 2008.

In the procedure the older Rushdie and Jain passed away but the Jain’s decided to not let go of the property transferred to Supreme Court the apex court of India which directed the Rushdie’s that’s the current owner Salman Rushdie to deliver the Bungalow whose current market value accounts for around 80-100 crore to the Jain’s at a throw away price of just 6 crore. Salman Rushdie will certainly be a miserable guy but more will be his Indian devotees as this was his last ancestral connection with India that will be lost for the great.

Salman Rushdie and controversies walk hand in hand but the largest controversy he faced is that connected with his novel The Satanic Verses that was first released in the year 1988 in UK. The publication initially received critical acclaim from nearly all British publication reviewers and it also won the Whitbread Prize for novel of the year that carried prize money of 20,000. Before the publication, both the editors and publishers received warnings the novel may be contentious but Salman Rushdie turned a blind eye to them and moved on with the novel and shortly after its release the novel garnered broad spread criticism, heated and violent reactions in the Muslim sections of the world. Rushdie after attempted to apologies and disown the novel but his apology was directly rejected the Imam Khomeini. The Fatwa got support and criticism from around the world and the UK encouraged the Iranian authorities to revoke the Fatwa which they rejected which resulted in societal and political side effect of the western and Islamic connections. Salman Rushdie had to stay indoors for years guarded by armed security staff 24X7 and he had to always shift his place to remain safe. The Fatwa changed his private life and his 2nd wife Marianne Wiggins divorced him, he wed Elizabeth West during his unhappy times and she supported him nicely but he dropped her for the ambitious and wonderful Indian-created Padma Lakshmi who was 23-year his junior and after four years of relationship his fourth wife Padma Lakshmi dropped him and moved on.

In the year 2007 on 16th June Salman Rushdie was created a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in honor of his services to literature. The knighthood for Salman Rushdie resulted in much controversy around the world with Muslim populated states openly criticizing the action.

Salman Rushdie already exceptionally wealthy made a profitable deal with the exceptionally loaded Emory University in Atlanta for an eye popping sum of 1 million which will take the possession of his newspapers, archives of journals and manuscripts that additionally contains the first 1,600 page contentious manuscript of The Satanic Verses.

Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours (2007), Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice), James Tait Black Prize, European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature, Author of the Year Prizes (Britain, Germany)

Movies

Midnight's Children, Then She Found Me, Concerning the Bodyguard, Paperback Dreams, Odd Streets Run West, Great Writers: Salman Rushdie

TV Shows

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[Comment on the Fatwa] I wish I'd written a more offensive book...

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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force of liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. "Respect for religion" has become a code phrase meaning "fear of religion". Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and yes, our fearless disrespect.

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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

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The lessons learned at school are not necessarily those the school thinks it's teaching.

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[on how he managed to weather the storm over 'Satanic Verses'] Just by being bloody-minded. I think I'm tougher than I thought I was. One of the things...was that I just wanted to be myself... to keep writing books I wanted to write. I think, if you knew nothing about my life story, if you'd never seen anything about my life and all you had was my books to look at, there isn't a great rift in 1989. It's not that writing after that is radically different in the writing before that. I think [it] has its own continuity, and I've tried very hard to do that.

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[on a forced shutdown in Sri Lanka during the filming of 'Midnight's Children'] We lost two day's shooting and a lot of sleep. It's clear that there was somebody in the Iranian foreign ministry - I don't know who, and I don't know at how high a level it was, but someone - said to the Sri Lankan ambassador they they disapproved of the permission having been given [to film] and that it should be revoked. Fortunately Deepa [Mehta] as part of the process of planning the film, had personally been to see the president of Sri Lanka [as a project for]trying to develop the film industry in Sri Lanka, develop it as a location for filming, and that they saw this as being a kind of showcase for that. So they were very supportive of it.. The moment we got to the president's office he said, 'No,of course you must make your film'.

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Education changes the world. If you have generations of children being brought up in extremist madrasas to believe that that world view is the correct world view, then you create generations of people with built-in hostilities. Even if nothing had happened to exacerbate those hostilities, even if there had not been an Iraq war, the mindset of generations, particularly of young men, has been badly affected. You see that anti-semitism is taken for granted, and that a highly misogynistic world view is propagated, where the role of women is cast as secondary. And when you get to other issues like the treatment of religious minorities or sexual minorities, there's a fantastic hostility. So you're bringing up generations of bigoted children.

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You can't be elected dog-catcher in America unless you're a Christian. For someone like me who spent a lot of his adult life in England and western Europe,it's probably the biggest single difference between the United States and the rest of the western democracies.

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I still refuse to call it 'Mumbai', as do many people who live there. It's not ancient like Delhi, with thousands of years of history. Essentially it's a city the British built because they thought the natural harbour would be useful to the navy. They reclaimed land to join together seven islands into what is now the peninsula of south Bombay, then they built a fort and the city grew around it.

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Fact

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According to the memoir "Joseph Anton", Keith Vaz MP promised Rushdie support over the phone, and then supported a protest against him.

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Mentioned in Theresa Rebeck's play "Seminar".

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New York City, New York [June 2007]

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Helped pick the phrase "naughty but nice" as an advertising slogan to sell cakes in 1970s Britain.

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He was awarded a British Knighthood in the 2007 Queen Elizabeth II's Birthday Honors List for his services to Literature.

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His book "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" was written for his son Zafar while he was in hiding, and they could not meet.

He is the father with Clarissa of Zafar Rushdie, born 1980, and with Elizabeth of Milan Rushdie, born 1999.

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Sentenced to death in 1989 for his book "The Satanic Verses" by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who proclaimed the book to be an insult to the Islamic religion. He has lived under police protection ever since. Since the Ayatollah's death, he has become a slightly more public person.